Care to share any interesting dinner conversation held with your family members (probably statists) during Thanksgiving or other holidays during years past? Any awkward moments you want to share? I’m fascinated with how drastically different the political methodologies are amid family members, and I’m certain that being libertarians, we disagree more than we agree with others!
My great aunt was telling me about being born in 1930 and remembering the Great Depression and having little food until she was about 10 years old. She was telling me that there are so many spoiled people today that take everything for granted, such as welfare recipients. Couldn’t agree more.
Most of my awkward moments at holiday time didn’t come from anything having to do with statism. For instance, when I saw my cousin who I hadn’t seen since 2003. The first thing that he told me was “you know, the last time we saw each other you told me that you hoped that I got sucked up in a tornado. But it’s alright, I forgive you.”
But according to statist stuff, the most awkward thing happened when my Mom’s South Florida liberal family saw our Ron Paul bumper sticker.
“The word libertarian comes from the word liberal,” says my Aunt.
I tried explaining to my parents why I believe that nuclear weapons don’t exist and the whole thing about them existing is just a big psy op. No one had any idea what to say, except to express concern for my mental stability.
I think there are good reasons to question. As already mentioned, just compare the photos of Dresden and Hiroshima. I’ve posted a couple times on this in the Blavatsky thread, you can find more detailed discussion there.
I never knew there was doubt in regard to nuclear weapons’ existence. Any good web pages for further investigation? I have reservations considering how many, I guess now supposed, tests were done. I admit pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki don’t look considerably different than the ones of Tokyo, Dresden, and really many other cities completely destroyed by senseless bombing during WWII.
My boss was telling me that there should be strong tarriffs on Chinese exports. I told her that we ought to end business regulations here in the States and allow the best, cheapest products to determine which products succeed. She said that was a great idea. Then I kindly informed her that she ought to read The Candlemakers’ Petition.
Google “nuke lies”. There isn’t much out there and what little is out there borders on the whacky. Anyway, I reserve my right to think there’s something fishy about the whole enterprise.
I find the term “denier” derogatory no matter what it is applied to.
But if you understand what radioactivity is and what elements are at the atomic level along with the mathematics of chain reactions and relativity, then it is absolutely certain that both fission and fusion bombs are possible, even if only in principle.
I’m assuming you don’t disagree that they can be made, only whether they actually were made (and used). Is that correct?
No, I question the whole enterprise all the way down to the physics. The phenomenon of radioactivity is there for anyone to observe. Radioactive decay is there for anyone to observe. But all the mathematics built on top of these phenomena are just that… mathematics. And I don’t restrict my criticism just to radioactive phenomena… most of 20th century “theoretical physics” is just pure mumbo-jumbo.
Much of it is little more than a reification of the variables in a Laplace transform which is just a powerful mathematical tool for solving differential equations. Differential equations frequently arise in physics but not because they are somehow “fundamental” to the operation of the Universe but, rather, because they are entailed in any system that changes, that is, exhibits differences. Reification of Riemannian geometry (this is mostly Poincare’s fault) is also responsible for a lot of the mumbo-jumbo about “gravity bending space-time”. This is nonsense-talk. But because it is shrouded in very powerful (extremely general) mathematics - that is also made difficult to learn by the standard approach to math education - no one dares question it for fear of looking the fool.
We don’t even actually understand what gravity is. Velikovsky annihilates modern theories of gravity in a couple sentences here.
There you have it. You can throw the entirety of post-Newtonian gravitational theory right into the trashcan. It’s worth less than the paper it’s written on. If the physics establishment has their collective head buried so far in the sand that they don’t even realize that their gravitational theories can be refuted by a child, what else are they duped about? Have you read about string theory? What a bunch of garbage. The phrase “building castles in the air” used to be a metaphor but it isn’t anymore, that’s literally what string theorists are doing. They’re just slamming together a lot of elegant and powerful mathematics in a “mathematical accelerator” in the hopes that a “theory of everything” will magically appear.
These are the same people who have constructed a “thorough” theory of radioactivity yet somehow managed to miss this. Now, you’d think that if they had such an amazingly complete theory of radioactive phenomena that they would have been able to predict this, rather than being surprised by it. Not that they will alter their sacrosanct theories one iota to incorporate the data because data is made to fit theories, not the other way around.
So, no, I don’t think that fission and fusion bombs are possible, at least, I have seen no convincing reason to believe they are. I’ve seen some people assert that nuclear power is also fabricated but this doesn’t make sense to me (nuclear submarines run on what, batteries?) I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t generate power from the heat product of radioactive elements.
If they do have a super-weapon, it might be an electromagnetic weapon capable of generating cosmic lightning bolts. I posted in the Blavatsky thread a pdf that goes over a potential connection between Tesla’s Wardenclyffe tower and the Tunguska event. But if they do have such a Zeus-like weapon, they would be happy to conceal its existence behind all this nonsense about nuclear bombs. The better to frustrate imitators and keep the super-weapon exclusively in the hands of those already wielding it.
Are you making the assertion that general relativity is nonsense? What about quantum mechanics? Theory can be refined. In the case of special relativity and classical mechanics, special relativity identified where classical mechanics failed and why. But classical mechanics is still used everyday by engineers, scientists, etc.